Hat-fastener.



A. A. ROBERTS. HAT FASTENEB. APPLIOATION FILED APR. 24, 1907.

Patented Feb. 9, 1909.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALICE A. Ronnnrs, a citizen of the United States, residing in the boroughof Brooklyn, city and State of New York, have invented a certain new and use ful Improvement in Hat-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

The improvement pertains to that class in which slender pins havingsufhcient length toextend a considerable distance through the hair are inserted in directions approximately horizontal and engage the hat with the hair. I have discovered that the engagement may be made peculiarly strong without paining the wearer, by giving spira or gyratory motions to each pin during its insertion, thus resulting in the hair being wound around the pin. I have devised a construction for attaching such pins to the hat and allowing for such engagement with the hair by a gentle and easy motion; The construction in its most complete form is permanently attached with liberty for easy movement in all the required directions. The head of the pin is also made detachable to suit the convenience or taste of the wearer with difiierent trimmings of the hat.

The following is a description of what I consider the best means of carrying out the invention. V

The accompanying drawing forms a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a central vertical section through a ortion of a hat with this invention applied. The remaining figures are on a larger scale. Fig. 2 is an elevation showing the pin after it is engaged with the hair. Fig. 3 is a central vertical section, and Fig. 4 is a plan view of a portion of the pin at right angles to that in Fig. 3.

Similar letters and marks of reference indicate like parts in all the figures where they appear.

M is the crown of a hat, and M the rim.

A is a triangular plate of German silver or other suitable material with erforations a through which it can be sewe to the hat on the lower interior of part M.

I employ what I term a swivel-piece,a short length of wire bent and'headed, the part B at one end formed into a rin loosely engaged in a hole a in the lower angle of the plate A and the other end being as shown by B free to play loosely in a hole (1 near the midlength of a small hollow cylinder D, having its ends D and D turned inward and one cone d as shown.

retained by the head B with liberty to turn The swivel-piece is strongly freely.

E is the body of the pin. It extends through the cylinder D and is flattened near the point E giving it a breadth which prevents its being drawn out through the cylinder. The other end E is screw-threaded and engages a head G, preferably of attractive appearance. I propose that two or more heads of different styles and colors shall be furnished by the trade when the goods are sold, allowing one to be detached and replaced by another at will. Two or more of the plates'A with the connected parts should be permanently attached in any required pplsition in the hat, ordinarily one on each s1 e. 1

The hat is placed on the head of the wearer and adjusted to the required position. pins are previously drawn out as far as the widened DOillt E engaging with the cylinder or tube will allow. Ordinarily the weight of the pin and its headwill cause it to depend in the required position. The wearer now inserts the pins in succession lifting each up to nearly a horizontal position and thrusting itinward simultaneously giving its head and consequently also its point, a bodily,

gyratory motion which causes the hair to be wound helically or screw-like around the pin. The cylinder D can turn with great freedom but cannot rise and sink or even move laterally much,it is in substance a fixed center on which the pin can rock, each end describing a circle. The pin is thus lent and then thrust directly endw'ise. 'l he pin may slant up a little under ordinary conditions so that the point is concealed under the hat, and the point may usually be left loosely engaged in the hair, the hat being held by the coils and partial coils of the hair near its enterin point,the apex The yrated as many times as is judged expedii'rance. The ring B is completed by My swiveling piece not only allows of rematching theend of the wire tightly against the sh 1% as. shown and there 1s no chance of en anghng the hair thereby.

volving in the horizontal plane indefinitely but also of rocking the pin E. degrees and rocking the swivel piece and the parts depending therefrom in the plane at right angles thereto about degrees.

Modifications may be made within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the principle or sacrificing the advantages of the invention. instead of sewing, the plates A may be secured. to the interior of the hat crown by any other convenient means, eminently wire staples, or in manufacturing, and attaching in. the large Way, slender prongs can be formed on. the edges or other parts of the plate and bent by hand or by machinery and thrust such through the hats and clench. Parts can he used without others. 'ihe detachable quality of the heads may be dispensed with. Parts can be added. 'lhe pin may have a companion extending parallel thereto, like the familiar hair-pins, only one arm of s eh double pin being engaged with the cylinder and the other partaking of course of the same conical, gyratory motion in its insertion.

I claim as my invention 1. A hatpin having a body composed of a single straight wire, a hollow cylinder with its ends contracted, loosely inclosing it with liberty to play axially to a limited extent form of a single straight wire having); a head l at one end and. provisions at the other end for e;

ring the hair, an inclosi.

5 cyliu der means for retaining the pin therein so that its r body is loosely held and allowed to play axially and also to gyrate by the rocking ol" the cylinder, nd means for attaching to a hat comprising a swiveling piece B having the body, ring and head adapted to allow a wine extent of variation in the inclination and any number oi revolutions, all substantially as herein specified.

A hat fastener comprising a plate A to be p rmanently secured to the hat, in combination with a pin E widened at the point, a swiveling piece linked and adapted to allow any extent and. number of gyratiohs, attached to such plate and to the cylinder and a cylinder in which such pin is loosely held and allowed to play axially and also to revolve, all arranged to serve substantially as herein specified Signed at New York, N. Y. this 23d day of April, 1907.

ALICE A. ROBERTS.

Witnesses Louis E. BRAUN, A E. Vi. FRAZER 

